Citations to papers from Brazilian institutions: a more effective indicator to assess productivity and the impact of research in graduate programs
Braz. j. med. biol. res
;
44(8): 738-747, Aug. 2011. ilus, tab
Article
in English
| LILACS
| ID: lil-595721
ABSTRACT
A recent assessment of 4400 postgraduate courses in Brazil by CAPES (a federal government agency dedicated to the improvement of the quality of and research at the postgraduate level) stimulated a large amount of manifestations in the press, scientific journals and scientific congresses. This gigantic effort to classify 16,400 scientific journals in order to provide indicators for assessment proved to be puzzling and methodologically erroneous in terms of gauging the institutions from a metric point of view. A simple algorithm is proposed here to weigh the scientometric indicators that should be considered in the assessment of a scientific institution. I conclude here that the simple gauge of the total number of citations accounts for both the productivity of scientists and the impact of articles. The effort spent in this exercise is relatively small, and the sources of information are fully accessible. As an exercise to estimate the value of the methodology, 12 institutions of physics (10 from Brazil, one from the USA and one from Italy) have been evaluated.
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Index:
LILACS (Americas)
Main subject:
Periodicals as Topic
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Academies and Institutes
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Journal Impact Factor
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
South America
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Brazil
Language:
English
Journal:
Braz. j. med. biol. res
Journal subject:
Biology
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Medicine
Year:
2011
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Fundação de Apoio à Universidade Federal de São Paulo/BR
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